I Need Advice From Anyone Who Has Been In A Similar Situation Or Who Has Known Some One Who Has?
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I have lived with my boyfriend for akmost 4 years and we just moved from Ohio to Virginia about 11 months ago. Before the move everything was not great really. We have hardly been one of those couples who are lovey dovey. We fight a lot about almost everything. I am 22 and he is 26 so it may be the age difference. Also I come from a bigger family but they are not that well off. I have to pay for all of my schooling and they can’t offer any assistance. His family is rather small and they consist of his mom who lives in Texas, and his aunt and uncle and 2 cousins who live in Ohio. His family are pretty well off. They were able to help us in our apartments because his credit is not too good and plus we don’t generate enough of an income that looks good on paper when filling out the stuff for the apartments. He has on a few occasions during the heat of the battle told me that my family are losers because they can’t offer any money to us if we need it, or offer any type of assistance any other way. It hurts me but it is true, they can’t offer any assistance but I still love them, but he does not understand why I defend them so much when he says stuff like that.
He also makes more money than me but it has not always been like that. For about a year or so we were making the same amount. For about 2 or 3 years he has made anywhere from 3-7 dollars more than me. He often tells me (also during the heat of the battle) that he is the bread winner and that I should not cause arguments and I should pick my battles. Things that I have argued about that have led to the verbally abusive explosions have been things about me not wanting to have anal sex, me getting pissed off if we go out to a bar or resturant and he calls the bartender/waitress honey, sweetie, or baby (and it is not in a way that someone does it who just is that way, it is sort of flirty), if I dont want to have sex, about him smoking pot, about my friends (I have none because he finds fault in all of them. He wants me to have friends with money and connections. He has talked about them so bad that I feel like I am choosing between him or them if I defend them or want to hang with them), also about my past job that I had. I did not have many responsibilities and he did manual labor and he felt like he should be the one who deserves the job like I had. I am a nursing student and the schedule can be very demanding. He has said it is a low life job and he is right but it just sucks to hear him say it like I am a loser.
So I recently went out and did research on schools back in Ohio. I found an LPN school because all RN schools have a 2 years wait. There were no schools in VA for LPN (if I wanted to pay 20grand at some technical school). So I told him that I was going back for my edducation for 21 months so that he could no longer harass me about my job. He wants me to get another job that is more challanging even if I make less. He told me he would respect me if I was a manager at McDonalds vs. my recent job of a bank teller. So everything was good for like 2 months and he was cool with me going but them like a week before I was supposed to go he started crying and freaking out. So I said I would stay. But them we had gotten into a few other fights and he has called me a bi*ch, cun*, loser, fatass, he even told me he made out with “a big ti**y bi*ch from alabama and wished he would have fuc*ed the **** out of her”. This was in response to me not wanting to do anal sex after I told him that I would. I told him I would because I was trying to work it out with us but he was making me feel like anal sex was the only way for him to be happy. He said that he has had 3 other girlfriends who have done that for him and I don’t love him because I don’t give all of me to him. But he does not turn me on I have really no desire. He does not tellme I am beautiful or anything and he is really demanding and does not make it a intimate experience. I keep telling myself that maybe I should just give in but I cant when the time comes down to it. When I went to stay with my friend after the big fight when he told me about kissing another person at the airport he was demanding that I leave saying he does not want me. When I left he starting calling and texting me every 15 minutes saying how sorry he was and how much he knows he will never find antoher like me. So like an idiot I went back, and then his story cahnged from him making out with the lady to her kissing him out of no where. He also told me he was smoking crystal a few years ago when we first moved in together when he went back down to Texas to pick up our furniture. He made the trip back from TX to OH in 2 days… That was during the heat of the battle and when I came back he said he was lying. He also said he made out with someone there too and then cahnged the story. I want to leave but I feel like there is good in him… HELP
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its your life, but if he is doing drugs, and he seems to be a controller. the minute u talk about getting an education he isn’t comfortable with that, because having a good job would enable u to leave him.he also tries to force u into things your not comfortable with, won’t make for a very rewarding relationship. u can do better than him.
I have one question for you…..
WHY are you still with this awful man…..he is NOT boyfriend material….he sounds like a chauvinistic pig.
Go out and find a real man
he’s not worth it. get out and find someone better.
Wow. Sweety don’t be treated like crap from this man. You can do better. There are a lot of men out there who will appreciate a woman that is willing to work and not degrade her or her family. HAe sounds like a spoilt pig.
You know I dont think you need any advice, youve recognised every bad point about him already, this is a nasty manipulative man, hope youve already left as I write,best of luck and happiness to you xx
sounds like to me you are trying hard to get your life in better shape so that you can earn more money and have a better life.
He sounds like a loser that thinks his crap doesn’t stink because he currently has a little money and his family supports him.
Do yourself a favor — move back to OH, work on your degree, forget about him, find a descent guy that will be supportive of you, and your family and understand and appreciate where you were, where you want to go, and will help get you there.
Short term = pain
Long term = happiness
You can do it!
Do yourself a favor. Desperate for awhile and collect your thoughts. Your in a partnership that includes your friends and your family. If you turn your back on them all you have to look forward to is a verbally abusive husband. That’s not going to get you anywhere. As for the sex………Keep your morales and only do what you are comfortable with. If he is not looking for “traditional sex” then it seems he is not really interested in developing a family. Keep your self esteem and do what your heart tells you. Coming from a guys point of view i would get the hell out of there. There are plenty of people that will respect you and accept you for who you are. Good luck
I guess in all this long information that you provided I dont see the good in him anywhere at all – is smoking pot the good in him? Him putting down your family is that the good in him? Him verbally abussing you -is that the good in him?
I think you need to move on and go to school and maybe in school you will learn just what a Good Person really is and find one that will show you true love.
Ditto what charlotte said. As far as I’m concerned, you know what you have to do. DO IT! Go home. Go back to school. And get this loser out of your life. Warning: He’s probably not going to make it easy so be prepared for trouble.